Coding Peace?

Posted on July 9, 2008
Filed Under Arabs, Business, Hamas, Human Rights, International, Israel, Jews, Middle East, Palestine, Terrorism, culture, economics, economy, high tech, software, technology | 1 Comment

ANSAmed.info reports:

MIDEAST: MORE PALESTINIANS IN ISRAELI SOFTWARE COMPANIES

(ANSAmed) – JERUSALEM, JULY 8 – The better cooperation between Israeli software companies and Palestinian technical staff could soon provide more solid basis to the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. According to the website Israel 21C, it happens ever more that the software companies and the Israeli subsidiaries of some multinational companies offer work opportunities to Palestinian technicians and developers. “We need to work together and not to fight anymore,” Jonathan Levy, director general of the Israeli seat of Winbond Electronics Corporation, said. “I already believe that it would be better to take a Palestinian engineer to develop our less complex products, mainly due to the costs and linguistic, cultural and deadline problems,” Levy underlined.

On the occasion of a public meeting, Jonathan Levy met Murad Tahboub, CEO of Asal Technologies, in Ramallah, a software company where a group of 35 Palestinian developers are working full-time and 12 part-time. “The work efficiency, a high level of productivity, and fluent English make the Palestinian developers desirable workforce both for the Israeli companies and for the multinational ones as well as a profitable investment for attainment of peace between these two populations,” Tahboub explained. Israel is the second one only after the Californian region Silicon Valley in the sector of technological innovation and is within the best countries in the world in the sectors of research, software development and in the field of high technology. With the objective to reach higher level of competitiveness the Israeli companies are offering jobs also to Italian and Chinese developers. (ANSAmed).
2008-07-08 18:44

Will new ideals for prosperity and coexistence replace terror? As second only to California’s Silicon Valley, Israeli companies are in a unique position to establish ties with Palestinians more interested in their future and their families’ prosperity than in the fanatical slogans of Hamas and like minded terror organizations.

Palestinians have to realize they have far more to gain by establishing commercial and professional ties with the Zionist Entity than by wearing suicide belts or using bulldozers to destroy and kill. A new era of trust will then dawn in the Middle East; together Jews and Arabs can work towards peace while pursuing their dreams of a better, safer and affluent life. I hope and pray that the trend described above represents the first line of coding towards successfully building a region where terror, where murder, become mere footnotes of a forgotten past.

Chaim

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One Response to “Coding Peace?”

Magdeburger Joe from New York, United States on July 10th, 2008 5:52 am

I respectfully disagree with you. I think that computer software and cyberspace are yet another frontier for jihad. I predict that these peace overtures will have unfortunate consequences. Some of the top men in jihad organisations are medical doctors. I have observed in litigious circomstances that conciliatory overtures are sometimes taked as weakness or an admission of guilt. In my personal life, when I observe that I am being flogged with my metaphoric olive branch, I take a very hard line and press for victory. I feel Israel should do likewise. The Arabs could make the Palestine Authority into a showcase of statecraft and a magnet for investment. They have chosen not to. Until they mend their wicked ways we should worry about unemployed Jews instead. The Arab’s injuries are self inflicted. We should not in Lenin’s words sell them the rope to hang us with

Magdeburger Joe
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